Liberty is not an "ideology"

dullhawk (66)in #liberty • 6 years ago

I saw a headline recently, which read in part, "Ideologies clash..."

It turns out one side simply wants to exercise liberty (open a brewery), while the opponents want to violate the first side's liberty for "reasons". The reasons include religion, fear of negative consequences of letting people control their own lives, and prohibitionism.

One side is an ideology, the other isn't.

Liberty isn't an ideology. It is the acceptance of the reality of self-ownership. From this acceptance flows certain principles. It doesn't matter to the existence of liberty whether people accept it or not-- it just is, to be respected or violated.

Yes, there will be consequences for exercising liberty. Everything has consequences. But slavery's consequences are worse than liberty's. And you're the bad guy when you choose slavery over liberty, no matter what "reasons" you come up with.

This is why governing others is never a valid form of interpersonal interaction. It allows people to violate the liberty of others too easily, and without the risk which should come along with such anti-social behavior.

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6 years ago in #liberty by dullhawk (66)

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dividebyzero (47) 6 years ago

So true, self ownership is the only valid way living. Otherwise you have master/slave relationships to varying degrees. It is really not that extreme to think about... but statists can't think outside the box of muh government to tell me what to do and what to think. They need their "authority" to keep them safe and their "experts" to tell them what to think. If you don't own yourself, then who does? You are a slave. It's that simple.